What does agorai mean?
…The most common etymology points to the Greek *agora* (ἀγορά), the open public gathering place of an ancient…
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1 Corinthians 13
…burned, or boasting The Greek manuscripts split here, and they split on a single consonant. Kauthēsomai (θ) means “that I…
Genesis 4
…Several ancient witnesses to the text (the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Greek Septuagint, and others) supply a plausible missing line, something…
episkopos — Dictionary
📖 Dictionary episkopos ἐπίσκοπος episkopos An OVERSEER — a plain compound, epi ('over') + skopos ('watcher'), used in ordinary Greek of a supervisor…
Genesis 17
…Geneva alone reads "God all sufficient" (an old rabbinic etymology, she-dai, "who is enough"). Mister keeps it as what…
Iēsous — Dictionary
📖 Dictionary Iēsous Ἰησοῦς Iēsous JESUS — the Greek form of the Hebrew Yeshua (Yehoshua, 'Joshua'), which means 'YHWH is salvation' or…
nēpios / nēpioi — Dictionary
📖 Dictionary nēpios / nēpioi νήπιος nēpioi INFANT, BABE — literally 'not-speaking' (nē-, negative + epos, 'word'), the ordinary Greek word for a…
mevasser — Dictionary
…the feet of the MEVASSER of good news.' The Greek that translates basar is euangelizomai, and its noun euangelion is…
Philippians 1
…episkopos is a plain compound meaning “one who watches over” (used in ordinary Greek of a supervisor or inspector), and…
Genesis 6
…The same phrase resurfaces, in a Dead Sea fragment and the Greek, as a variant reading of Deuteronomy 32:8…
aletheia — Dictionary
…Greek ALETHEIA is built on a negation — 'un-concealment' — though by the first century that etymology is long buried in…
